Due to the oil disputes between the UAE and Saudi Arabia; Is the explosion in UAE port Jabal Ali the work of Ibn Salman?
There was an explosion at the UAE port last night, which observers did not consider unrelated to the dispute.
UAE port officials say a fire inside a container ship in the port of Jabal Ali in Dubai has caused an explosion that was felt up to 25km away.
The blaze was contained and no one was injured, according to UAE port officials. No one was injured in the incident, local officials said.
But observers say the incident is not unrelated to recent disputes between the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
These days, there is talk in the Arab and international media about the existence and escalation of the dispute between the two longtime allies of the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
This week, Saudi Arabia and the UAE disagreed over OPEC quotas and increased oil production under OPEC Plus.
The UAE Ministry of Energy declared the OPEC Plus agreement “unfair” and stressed that it supported an unconditional increase in oil production in August.
The ministry said in a statement that the UAE believes that global markets are in dire need of increased production and supports an unconditional increase in production from August to December.
The statement said that the OPEC ministerial committee has discussed only one option, and that is to increase production subject to the extension of the current agreement until December 2022, which is unfair to the UAE in terms of production quotas.
The UAE Ministry of Energy has stressed that the UAE proposal proposes to separate the issue of increasing production from the extension of the current agreement, adding that the UAE wants to postpone the decision on extending the current agreement to a later meeting and an immediate decision on increasing production from August.
The UAE has stressed that it is working with its international partners to increase production capacity and that OPEC quotas should be redefined.
Reacting to the remarks, the Saudi Minister of Energy strongly criticized the UAE’s position on increasing oil production at the OPEC Plus meeting, calling it irrational.
Saudi Energy Minister Abdul Aziz bin Salman has said he has been attending OPEC meetings for 34 years and has never heard anything like what the UAE says.
Bin Salman said that if the UAE is objecting to its quota from OPEC, why has it not objected so far.
These differences prevented the OPEC Plus meeting from deciding whether to increase oil production.
After this, Saudi Arabia took other decisions that show the depth and continuity of this dispute.
